Seriously makes me want to move on to. This place used to be about supporting others, not trying to drag them down and denigrate them at every possible turn unless they truly deserved it.

Some of you are no better than the trolls you constantly **** and moan about.

This is the reason I haven't been commenting as much lately. I still visit daily but man on almost every thread there is some bickering or belittling of other members and I can't stand the negativity.

A lot of members have been going through some tough times and I get that. I have thought about taking a break myself just to get rid of the negative energy but other audio forums just don't have the same feel to me so I come back.

I'd like to see everyone just get along and agree to disagree. Call it an early Christmas gift.

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Most forums are, ultimately, somebody else's sandbox. If we pee in their sandbox, we are likely to get booted...or disciplined in some way as in this case. We like to think free speech rules in these forums (vanilla speech, at least), but as we see, there are limits.

I'm sorry that Skip chose such an extreme option, especially if he was given alternatives. We lost a lot of archival knowledge and valued opinion.

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I'm sorry to see Derek leave. I hope he will reconsider. My PM's with him still have his comments, so maybe there's hope all his valuable contributions to the forum are not lost forever.

Dave, you still have PMs you exchanged with him? Odd. I had a few PMs to him over the years, but ALL are gone now - which stinks because he had given me a lot of good information and it's now gone. I do have his contact info so I can reach out to him outside the forum again if need be. It just sucks that MY messages were deleted too!

I have a pm that I started with him that is still there. I bet it has to do with which person started the pm. Like when nbrowser had his posts deleted. Any threads started by him vanished, even when others participated in them. That's just a guess.

Most forums are, ultimately, somebody else's sandbox. If we pee in their sandbox, we are likely to get booted...or disciplined in some way as in this case. We like to think free speech rules in these forums (vanilla speech, at least), but as we see, there are limits.

I'm sorry that Skip chose such an extreme option, especially if he was given alternatives. We lost a lot of archival knowledge and valued opinion.

Have any of you guys been on AH, or EMO forum? them dude’s will surely jump ya.

Sorry guys, been a busy morning. He reached out to us and asked that we delete his account along with all his posts. I asked if he was 100% sure, since we cannot recover his posts once we've deleted them, he replied with yes.

I can certainly unban him if he ever changes his mind but this was 100% his decision. Not sure why.